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For Victory · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 25 OF 41
Run H1 · Part H (bars 73-88)
159 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART J
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJEHS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Victory on drums

192 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-72, hi-hat through bars 73-136 and ride through bars 137-192.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 19 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----xxxx|
For Victory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 56, 60 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-25 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-89 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is For Victory?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is For Victory hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in For Victory?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 56, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED